Steve Antonoff is Consulting Manager, Performance Testing Services at Orasi Software, where he manages a growing team of performance testing consultants. Antonoff has been working in software engineering since 1998. He has been involved with performance and load testing since 1996 using a variety of tools, although he specializes in HPE LoadRunner (Mercury Certified Product Consultant, Mercury Certified Instructor) and HPE Performance Center (HPE Accredited Software Engineer).

With most firms today running application-driven websites, developing/maintaining in-house software, or customizing purchased software applications, business leaders are increasingly confronted with the question of software performance. Although the issues and functions surrounding web and mobile application development, testing and performance are worlds away from conventional high-level concerns, the performance and...